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123-814: Horrocks or Horrox may refer to People [ edit ] Amy Horrocks (1867 – 1919), English music educator, pianist and composer Brian Horrocks (1895–1985), British Army lieutenant-general in the Second World War Chris Horrocks (soccer) (born 1954), Canadian former international and North American Soccer League player Chris Horrocks (writer) , associate professor of art history and author Dylan Horrocks (born 1966), New Zealand cartoonist Geoffrey Horrocks (mathematician) (1932/33 – 2012), British mathematician Geoffrey Horrocks (philologist) (born 1951), British philologist Ian Horrocks (born 1958), British professor of computer science at

246-638: A base-10 positional system. On May 25, 1577, King Philip II of Spain ordered by royal cédula the preparation of a general description of Spain's holdings in the Indies. Instructions and a questionnaire, issued in 1577 by the Office of the Cronista Mayor, were distributed to local officials in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru to direct the gathering of information. The questionnaire, composed of fifty items,

369-533: A census for tax purposes, which was partially responsible for the development of the Zealot movement and several failed rebellions against Rome ultimately ending in the Jewish Diaspora . The Gospel of Luke makes reference to Quirinius' census in relation to the birth of Jesus ; based on variant readings of this passage, a minority of biblical scholars, including N. T. Wright , speculate that this passage refers to

492-404: A 1896 London Ballad Concert, sponsored by one of Amy’s publishers, Boosey & Co. These Ballad concerts began in the 1860s and consisted mainly of newly composed songs and were sponsored by sheet music publishers as a way to drive sales of music that would be bought by members of the public to perform at home. Remember this was before recorded music and at a time when many households would possess

615-449: A Birmingham Chamber Concert. She contributes to a collection of Artistic Songs, published by Robert Cocks & Co. where she is referred to as Elise Horrocks. And this is followed up by a letter mentioning Amy, from the publisher lamenting the lack of public interest in “high class songs” and the limitations this placed on music publishers, stating that until things change, “the publishers of ‘artistic’ work must content themselves with

738-595: A Nankin Plate If Amy can be said to have had a ‘hit’ then it is her song, The Bird and the Rose with words by writer and satirist Robert Smythe Hichens published in 1895. The Bird and The Rose A rose that bloomed in a desert land Sighed in her loneliness; A little bird that was singing near Was touched by her distress. “Why are you sad, sweet rose?” he said, “Why do you weep and sigh?” “Ah!” said

861-594: A Primrose,’ and ‘A Cradle Hymn,’ are very much above the average, especially the former, in which at the end Miss Horrocks makes the voice drop a tenth, a rather daring thing to do, but very admirable here. Grieg, by whose compositions I should fancy Miss Horrooks [sic] [is] inspired, in one of his songs takes the voice down from G natural to G sharp below, in a very merciless but very delightful manner. I strongly recommend these four songs to all capable singers and shall look forward with interest to fresh work from this clever young composer, who evidently looks upon song writing as

984-565: A Sonata for the Pianoforte and Violincello, one of her own compositions … It is always gratifying to us to see our pupils coming to the fore in whatever line they have chosen after leaving our midst.” Two years later the school magazine again notes, “Miss Amy Horrocks, who has been studying for some time at the Royal Academy, also held a successful concert, at which several of her own compositions were performed” . Another magazine article quotes

1107-402: A census is that the population is not known, and a new estimate is to be made by the analysis of primary data. The use of a sampling frame is counterintuitive as it suggests that the population size is already known. However, a census is also used to collect attribute data on the individuals in the nation, not only to assess population size. This process of sampling marks the difference between

1230-477: A clan or tribe, or by a juridical person such as a corporation, cooperative, or government agency. The holding's land may consist of one or more parcels, located in one or more separate areas or one or more territorial or administrative divisions, providing the parcels share the same production means, such as labor, farm buildings, machinery or draught animals. Historical censuses used crude enumeration assuming absolute accuracy. Modern approaches take into account

1353-403: A country should be included in the population count. This is becoming more important as students travel abroad for education for a period of several years. Other groups causing problems with enumeration are newborn babies, refugees, people away on holiday, people moving home around census day, and people without a fixed address. People with second homes, because they are working in another part of

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1476-499: A fishing analogy can be found in "Trout, Catfish and Roach..." which won an award from the Royal Statistical Society for excellence in official statistics in 2011. Triple system enumeration has been proposed as an improvement as it would allow evaluation of the statistical dependence of pairs of sources. However, as the matching process is the most difficult aspect of census estimation this has never been implemented for

1599-457: A graceful and musicianly manner” . The Standard adds that the piece is “melodious, fresh in design and brilliantly executed” , while the Irish Times remarks that the “themes are melodious, and well chosen, plenty of contrast is provided, and the scoring is decidedly effective” . The weekly magazine, Black and White , mentions Amy’s performance, but sadly illustrates the ignorant attitudes of

1722-607: A hearty recall” . By the end of the century, Amy is advertising her services as a music teacher, drawing on her Royal Academy credentials and has clearly established herself on the London classical music scene. In the 1901 census she is still living with her parents in Goldhurst Terrace, along with a Dutch lodger (Carl Bloemandal) and their servant, Alice Clarke. Amy describes herself as a Professor of Music living ‘on own account’. Three of her ‘Six Greek Love Songs’ are premiered by

1845-428: A historical census, which was a house-to-house process or the product of an imperial decree, and the modern statistical project. The sampling frame used by a census is almost always an address register. Thus, it is not known if there are any residents or how many people there are in each household. Depending on the mode of enumeration, a form is sent to the householder, an enumerator calls, or administrative records for

1968-500: A large city, it might be appropriate to give the average income for black males aged between 50 and 60. However, doing this for a town that only has two black males in this age group would be a breach of privacy because either of those persons, knowing his own income and the reported average, could determine the other man's income. Typically, census data are processed to obscure such individual information. Some agencies do this by intentionally introducing small statistical errors to prevent

2091-553: A loose family connection to the area with his elder brother Thomas having been born and died in Chester as an infant in 1827, during the time their father (also called Thomas) was stationed there while serving as a quartermaster in the Royal Fusiliers . Amy’s early education from the age of about six is at Miss Frances Anne Gregson’s Highbury College in Bowdon , Cheshire, which opened in

2214-469: A national enumeration. It would also be difficult to identify three different sources that were sufficiently different to make the triple system effort worthwhile. The DSE approach has another weakness in that it assumes there is no person counted twice (over count). In de facto residence definitions this would not be a problem but in de jure definitions individuals risk being recorded on more than one form leading to double counting. A particular problem here

2337-551: A performance by the singer Marian McKenzie in Plymouth (her birthplace) in 1895. An article in the Newark Advertiser goes into more detail about Marian McKenzie’s career ahead of a concert in 1896, highlighting her ballad-singing abilities and mentions Amy as being one “of the best ballad writers the [Royal] Academy has produced” who contributes two songs (actually the same two songs, ‘Garden Voices’ and ‘Lullaby’) especially for

2460-679: A piano for domestic entertainment. Esther Palliser performs Amy’s “pretty” , “piquant” ‘Romany Spring Song’ at a Queen’s Hall Ballad Concert in January 1897. ‘The Bird and the Rose’ features again in another Queen’s Hall Ballad Concert in October 1897 performed by Edwardian actress, Georgina Delmar. And the song makes yet another appearance at the Ballad Concert in March 1898. Amy herself makes an appearance at

2583-433: A population and housing census – numbers of people, their distribution, their living conditions and other key data – is critical for development." This is because this type of data is essential for policymakers so that they know where to invest. Many countries have outdated or inaccurate data about their populations and thus have difficulty in addressing the needs of the population. The UNFPA said: "The unique advantage of

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2706-423: A population census. A census is often construed as the opposite of a sample as it intends to count everyone in a population, rather than a fraction. However, population censuses do rely on a sampling frame to count the population. This is the only way to be sure that everyone has been included, as otherwise those not responding would not be followed up on and individuals could be missed. The fundamental premise of

2829-504: A private teacher, as might dancing also.” However, by 1872, thankfully, her views had moved on significantly: “I want to teach music grandly - thoroughly in classes - making each girl understand what she plays, as well as if she were reading some passage of poetry, teaching her to find out the musician’s thought; his [sic] mode of expressing it; other ways of expression of the same thought, viz. words . The grammar of music should be known to every musician.” She evidently began to understand

2952-460: A realist approach to measurement, acknowledging that under any definition of residence there is a true value of the population but this can never be measured with complete accuracy. An important aspect of the census process is to evaluate the quality of the data. Many countries use a post-enumeration survey to adjust the raw census counts. This works similarly to capture-recapture estimation for animal populations. Among census experts, this method

3075-439: A resident in one place; but the place where they happen to be on Census Day, their de facto residence , may not be the best place to count them. Where an individual uses services may be more useful, and this is at their usual residence. An individual may be recorded at a "permanent" address, which might be a family home for students or long-term migrants. A precise definition of residence is needed, to decide whether visitors to

3198-472: A school states that “I would rigidly and entirely omit all arrangements for teaching instrumental music, which I believe to be the bane of girls’ schools, in the time wasted and the expense entailed.” However she does make an exception for musical harmony “… by which I mean the laws of musical construction, an interesting, and, in an educational point of view, a most useful subject for mental training. Instrumental music—the piano chiefly—might fairly be left to

3321-408: A second part formed entirely of materials from her own pen. Naturally special interest attached to the latter. First in this list came a Sonata in G, for pianoforte and violincello, containing some excellent workmanship in the opening Allegro and the final movement, and having for its middle section a theme with variations ingeniously worked out. Altogether the work shows much promise, more especially as

3444-678: A separate registration conducted during the reign of Herod the Great , several years before Quirinius' census. The 15-year indiction cycle established by Diocletian in AD   297 was based on quindecennial censuses and formed the basis for dating in late antiquity and under the Byzantine Empire . In the Middle Ages , the Caliphate began conducting regular censuses soon after its formation, beginning with

3567-622: A small town Horrocks Pass , a pass in the southern Flinders Ranges in South Australia Horrocks Block , a mostly sandstone outcrop on Alexander Island, Antarctica Horrocks (crater) , a lunar crater named after Jeremiah Horrocks Other uses [ edit ] Tony Horrocks , a fictional character on the soap opera Coronation Street Horrocks Highway, a section of the Main North Road , Adelaide, South Australia See also [ edit ] Horrocks loom ,

3690-564: A type of power loom used to weave cotton Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Horrocks . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horrocks&oldid=1238058812 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists English-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description

3813-459: A vocal recital at the Steinway Hall. Amy’s songs feature at three more of Rosa Leo concerts in 1896. The first Steinway Hall event on 3 March includes ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’ and ‘A Flower’ described as “effective airs, ably contrasted” and also as “clever and pleasing duets” . These “charming” , “new and clever vocal duets” afforded “a delightful finale” . At later concerts in

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3936-521: A worthy vehicle for refined art, and not as a mere swift and easy means of making money.” Other pieces by Amy are listed or reported on several occasions:- The Return of May Bonnie Wee Thing An Idyll of New Years Eve A Midsummer Song Berceuse in F. Waltz in C Four Songs in Two Books When Mortals are at Rest Six Songs, Two Fairy Songs for Treble Voices and Six Pieces for Piano The Skylark’s Wooing, Hill Tops On

4059-400: A young lady composer, Miss Amy Horrocks. I have been sent four songs composed by her, and I am quite delighted by all of them except one. ‘Ashes of Roses’ is really beautiful, though only slight. It breathes the very spirit of romantic sorrow, and is highly original also. ‘A Love Song of the 17th Century’ is not quite so good. It seems to me more ambitious but less effective. The other two, ‘With

4182-507: Is “making a name as a composer as well as a pianist” . The Musical Times goes into a lot more detail: “Miss Amy Horrocks’s Concert. Several examples of the skill of Miss Amy Horrocks as a pianoforte player and composer were presented on Thursday afternoon … at Princes’ Hall, when, besides executing Chopin ’s Fantasia in F minor (Op. 49) and joining Miss Winifred Robinson (violin) in Brahms ’s Duo Sonata in A (Op. 100), she had an important share in

4305-519: Is a pupil of Music Master John Blockley who “in addition to teaching pianoforte playing, gave lessons in class and solo singing and harmony, and was also a composer” . No mention is made of Amy’s musical prowess while at the school (Amy wins a Junior prize for ‘satisfactory’ French ) and she leaves in Easter 1882. Indeed it might be argued that Frances Buss did not consider music teaching to be very important. A letter of hers written in 1868 about establishing

4428-683: Is a reluctant conclusion full of homeliness.” The song features in many contemporary reports:- Two of Amy’s songs, ‘An Idle Poet’ (later performed at the Proms) and ‘Constant Love’ (both described as “charming” ) are performed by Frances Morris at an Orchestral Union concert at Temperance Hall in Derby in 1891. Another song is performed by a cold-affected Miss Waite at Croydon ’s Small Public Hall in 1892. A performance of her Eight Variations features at another St James’s Hall concert, conducted by Royal Academy principal Alexander MacKenzie on 27 February 1893 with

4551-466: Is actually the same house: According to Camden History Society, "in 1877 Goldhurst Road (as it was then) was approved from Finchley Road as far as Fairhazel Gardens. The name was officially changed to Goldhurst Terrace the following year when the extension from Fairhazel Gardens to Priory Road was agreed. For many years the houses were numbered and named in ‘East’ and ‘West’ sections on either side of Fairhazel Gardens which caused great confusion. Before all

4674-453: Is called dual system enumeration (DSE). A sample of households is visited by interviewers who record the details of the household as of census day. These data are then matched to census records, and the number of people missed can be estimated by considering the number of people who are included in one count but not the other. This allows adjustments to the count for non-response, varying between different demographic groups. An explanation using

4797-467: Is common in opinion polling . Similarly, stratification requires knowledge of the relative sizes of different population strata, which can be derived from census enumerations. In some countries, the census provides the official counts used to apportion the number of elected representatives to regions (sometimes controversially – e.g., Utah v. Evans ). In many cases, a carefully chosen random sample can provide more accurate information than attempts to get

4920-597: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amy Horrocks The family (Francis, Hannah, Amy [aged 4] and their servant Mary Thompson) are recorded in the Scottish census of 1871, as lodgers in Edinburgh , so presumably they left Brazil between 1867 and 1871 and are possibly taking a holiday. When they return from Brazil the family settles initially in Cheshire . Francis had

5043-402: Is essential to international comparisons of any type of statistics, and censuses collect data on many attributes of a population, not just the number of individuals. Censuses typically began as the only method of collecting national demographic data and are now part of a larger system of different surveys. Although population estimates remain an important function of a census, including exactly

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5166-469: Is interested; researchers in particular have an interest in the role of Census Field Officers (CFO) and their assistants. Data can be represented visually or analysed in complex statistical models, to show the difference between certain areas, or to understand the association between different personal characteristics. Census data offer a unique insight into small areas and small demographic groups which sample data would be unable to capture with precision. In

5289-690: Is named after the counting of the Israelite population according to the house of the Fathers after the exodus from Egypt. A second census was taken while the Israelites were camped in the " plains of Moab ". King David performed a census that produced disastrous results. His son, King Solomon , had all of the foreigners in Israel counted. One of the world's earliest preserved censuses was held in China in AD   2 during

5412-662: Is no systematic alternative: any list used to find people is likely to be derived from census activities in the first place. Recent UN guidelines provide recommendations on enumerating such complex households. In the census of agriculture , data is collected at the agricultural holding unit. An agricultural holding is an economic unit of agricultural production under single management comprising all livestock kept and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production purposes, without regard to title, legal form, or size. Single management may be exercised by an individual or household, jointly by two or more individuals or households, by

5535-428: Is obtained only from a subset of a population; typically, main population estimates are updated by such intercensal estimates . Modern census data are commonly used for research, business marketing , and planning, and as a baseline for designing sample surveys by providing a sampling frame such as an address register. Census counts are necessary to adjust samples to be representative of a population by weighting them as

5658-480: Is performed at a concert in Clifton in 1896 and her song, ‘A Romany Spring Song’ features in the annual Wilhelm Ganz concert. Ganz was a German-born English pianist, violinist, and conductor. The song is described “pleasing” and as carrying “with it a delightful little breeze, straight from the heather” . Two more of Amy’s songs (‘The Bird and the Rose’ and ‘My Pretty Jane’) are performed by Jack Robertson as part of

5781-500: Is performed at the school concert in 1897 and her ‘Collection of Two-Part Songs’ is bought for the library in 1902. By the time of the 1881 census the family (Francis, Hannah, Amy [aged 14 and described as a scholar], a visitor, Alice Marland [described as a solicitor’s wife] and a new servant Susan Hood) have moved and are living at 17 Goldhurst Terrace in Hampstead . In the 1891 census the family are living at 163 Goldhurst Terrace which

5904-487: Is said to have claimed … that you could teach anything as long as you were one lesson ahead of your pupils… The supreme asset to the school was Gertrude , academically brilliant, with a reputation as a teacher. She was the first woman to attain degree standard at London University , in about 1887, at which date the University did not grant degrees to women. She had read English at London, but also had mathematical gifts, and at

6027-423: Is still conducted in a similar way to the post-enumeration survey employed in a traditional census. Other countries that have a population register use this as a basis for all the census statistics needed by users. This is most common among Nordic countries but requires many distinct registers to be combined, including population, housing, employment, and education. These registers are then combined and brought up to

6150-415: Is students who often have a term time and family address. Several countries have used a system known as short form/long form. This is a sampling strategy that randomly chooses a proportion of people to send a more detailed questionnaire to (the long form). Everyone receives the short-form questions. This means more data are collected, but without imposing a burden on the whole population. This also reduces

6273-586: The Daily Graphic : “The name of A. E. Horrocks is new to us, but to judge by his (or her?) cantata, ‘The Wild Swans’ ( Joseph Williams ), the composer is evidently above the average degree of merit. The cantata suffers from a poor libretto, which does not afford much scope for development, but every advantage has been taken, and the result is most musicianly and full of promise. It is an excellent little work, and may be recommended to small choirs of female voices, who care for good music." Amy’s song, ‘At Peep of Dawn’

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6396-546: The Han dynasty , and is still considered by scholars to be quite accurate. The population was registered as having 57,671,400 individuals in 12,366,470 households but on this occasion only taxable families had been taken into account, indicating the income and the number of soldiers who could be mobilized. Another census was held in AD   144. The oldest recorded census in India is thought to have occurred around 330   BC during

6519-668: The nomarch , "whence he gained his living". Under the Ptolemies and the Romans several censuses were conducted in Egypt by government officials. There are several accounts of ancient Greek city states carrying out censuses. Censuses are mentioned several times in the Biblical narrative. God commands a per capita tax to be paid with the census for the upkeep of the Tabernacle . The Book of Numbers

6642-611: The “former was not a success; but the latter proved pretty and commendably short” , but according to the Hampstead News, both songs “were enthusiastically received” . Another of Amy’s vocal compositions, ‘Prithee Maiden’, sees out the century by featuring at the inaugural concert of the Wycombe Orchestral Society. But despite her growing fame, the Musical Times writes to a correspondent to “regret that we cannot trace

6765-498: The 1870s and continued to operate into the early twentieth century. The school site is now occupied by Altrincham Preparatory School for Boys (Kendrick 1996). Kendrick shines a little bit of light on the school, and mentions lessons in French, German, Mathematics, Science, Sewing. Cooking, Physical Training, Deportment, Dancing, Tennis and Ping-Pong (!), but there is no evidence of music teaching being particularly noteworthy: “Miss Gregson …

6888-622: The 1896 Robert Cocks Prize for piano playing. And one of her songs (‘To Music To Becalm His Fever’) features at the Academy’s annual prize giving in 1894 and two of her “fresh and pretty” duets, ‘April Showers’ and ‘The Skylark’s Wooing’, at another Academy concert in 1898. Amy performs Dvorak and one of her own piano compositions at a concert in Westerham , Kent, publicised in the Westerham Herald and also features as soloist and composer at

7011-467: The 1898 Ballad Concert accompanying Ellen Bowick in her performance of Tennyson ’s ‘ The Lady of the Shalott ’ for which Amy had composed a “graceful and picturesque” accompaniment of violin, cello and piano. Amy is quite likely to be one of the first composers (if not the first) to set Tennyson’s poem to music. The duo repeat the performance on several occasions in 1899. Amy’s musical arrangement of

7134-412: The 19th and 20th centuries collected paper documents which had to be collated by hand, so the statistical information obtained was quite basic. The government that owned the data could publish statistics on the state of the nation. The results were used to measure changes in the population and apportion representation. Population estimates could be compared to those of other countries. By the beginning of

7257-437: The 20th century, censuses were recording households and some indications of their employment. In some countries, census archives are released for public examination after many decades, allowing genealogists to track the ancestry of interested people. Archives provide a substantial historical record which may challenge established views. Information such as job titles and arrangements for the destitute and sick may also shed light on

7380-476: The Birmingham Mail is to blame for the original miss-spelling of Amy’s second name, when they report on another performance in 1901 of ‘The Lady of Shalott’ “with a beautiful musical accompaniment for piano, violin, and violincello, by Amy Elsie [sic] Horrocks” , describing the music as “quite symphonic in character” . It is alleged that Amy was proposed to by Sir Henry Wood “who was a student with her at

7503-498: The Pedlar’ are described as being “written with studious simplicity though with musicianly feeling” . And English contralto, (Louise) Kirkby Lunn performs Amy’s ‘Bonnie Wee Thing’, while Amy accompanies Rhoda Wiley in her vocal recital, including two of Amy’s “tuneful and well-written” songs (‘To Violets’ and ‘July the Pedlar’), at the Steinway Hall. The County Gentleman comments that

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7626-576: The Queen's Hall promenade concerts in 1895) built on the success of the second summer season of proms and presented Saturday-only concerts in the early spring of 1896/7. Amy appears on the bill for the Promenade concert under the baton of Henry Wood, sharing the programme with performances of Rossini ’s ‘William Tell’ Overture, Allan Macbeth’s ‘Serenata’, Gounod ’s ‘Funeral March of a Marionette’ and two pieces by Wagner amongst others. Amy “was twice called to

7749-573: The Royal Academy are captured in various newspaper articles:- One of her Prince's Hall concerts is advertised in The Morning Post and The Standard and is favourably reviewed in The Weekly Dispatch , describing the music as “agreeable” including “a well-written and effective sonata in G, for piano and violincello” . While The Northern Whig describes Amy as “a talented composer as well as an able pianist” and later goes on to say she

7872-611: The Royal Academy which she enters in 1882 (Brown and Stratton 1897) at the tender age of 15. Amy is referred to as a Professor of Music in the 1891 census, having been elected as an Associate of the Academy in 1890 and a Fellow in 1895. She wins various awards while a student, including the Potter Exhibition prize in 1888 and the Sterndale Bennett Prize in 1889 (Brown and Stratton 1897). Highlights of Amy’s student career at

7995-435: The Royal Academy, whom she called Grubby Wood” (Norrington 2006) and whom she apparently turned down! There was clearly some sort of a relationship or friendship between the two as Amy has several of her compositions performed (and some of them premiered) at five of Wood’s Promenade Concerts between 1897 and 1909. The first of these is in the early days of the Promenade concerts when Robert Newman (co-founder with Wood of

8118-618: The School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada Peter Horrocks (born 1959), British television producer Ray Horrocks (1930–2011), British automobile chief executive (BL), in the 1980s Richard Horrocks (1857–1926), English cricketer Rosemary Horrox (born 1951), English historian Vic Horrocks (1884–1922), English footballer William Horrocks (1859–1941), British military doctor William Horrocks (cricketer) (1905–1985), English cricketer Places [ edit ] Horrocks, Western Australia ,

8241-460: The UK, all census formats are scanned and stored electronically before being destroyed, replacing the need for physical archives. The record linking to perform an administrative census would not be possible without large databases being stored on computer systems. There are sometimes problems in introducing new technology. The US census had been intended to use handheld computers, but cost escalated, and this

8364-450: The USA and Canada). Subtle chromaticism is at work here in the middle voices and the text almost always appears syllable for syllable, each on its own note value. Only when the direct speech of the questioning bird finds its way does more movement enter the music, gently interpreting the text. Syncopated chords vibrate in the comforting middle of the piano. And at the end of this beautiful song there

8487-1023: The University of Oxford Ian Horrocks (RAF officer) (died 2014), British Royal Air Force pilot and air commodore James Horrocks (died 1772), American Anglican clergyman and sixth president of the College of William and Mary Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British comedian and actress Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), English astronomer John Horrocks (cotton manufacturer) (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer John Horrocks (fisherman) (1816–1881), Scottish founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing John Ainsworth Horrocks , (1818–1846), English-born explorer and settler in South Australia Joseph Horrocks (1803–1866), British convict transported to Western Australia Mark Horrocks (born 1977), English former cricketer Nancy Horrocks (1900–1989), British artist Norman Horrocks (1927–2010), professor emeritus and adjunct professor at

8610-809: The Victorian era, Greta Williams . Greta Williams is also remembered as a heroine of the 1899 wreck of the SS Stella , in which 77 people perished. During the 14 hours she and other survivors waited in open boats for their rescuers, she quelled the fears of the passengers and crew by singing ‘O, Rest in the Lord’. Amy is performing the piano again in 1899 at the Salle Erard in London’s Regent Street , accompanying Hungarian cellist Dezso Kordy. Kordy performs two of Amy’s pieces “for which both executant and composer received

8733-529: The age of forty was accepted at Manchester University for a degree course in Chemistry… The school’s motto was ‘Semper ad Lucem'." But in 1879 the family relocates to London and are living at 35 Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town and Amy is enrolled at North London Collegiate School for Girls , the country’s oldest academic girls’ school, founded by Frances Mary Buss in 1850. Amy joins the school in May 1880 and

8856-610: The baritone Frederick Keel (to whom the collection is dedicated) at the Steinway Hall in May 1899 and her duet for female voices, ‘Harebell Curfew’ is described as “charming” and “this clever lady composer has selected a tuneful and generally grateful [sic] melody, while the refinement of the accompaniment mingle pleasing and picturesque effects” . Amy’s songs continue to feature at the Ballad Concerts in London’s St James’s Hall. Her two new songs, ‘To Violets’ and ‘July

8979-417: The burden on the statistical office. Indeed, in the UK until 2001 all residents were required to fill in the whole form but only a 10% sample was coded and analysed in detail. New technology means that all data are now scanned and processed. During the 2011 Canadian census there was controversy about the cessation of the mandatory long-form census; the head of Statistics Canada , Munir Sheikh , resigned upon

9102-438: The census is also an important tool for identifying forms of social, demographic or economic exclusions, such as inequalities relating to race, ethics, and religion as well as disadvantaged groups such as those with disabilities and the poor. An accurate census can empower local communities by providing them with the necessary information to participate in local decision-making and ensuring they are represented. The importance of

9225-536: The census is that it represents the entire statistical universe, down to the smallest geographical units, of a country or region. Planners need this information for all kinds of development work, including: assessing demographic trends; analysing socio-economic conditions; designing evidence-based poverty-reduction strategies; monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of policies; and tracking progress toward national and internationally agreed development goals." In addition to making policymakers aware of population issues,

9348-467: The census of agriculture as "a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering the whole or a significant part of a country." "In a census of agriculture, data are collected at the holding level." The word is of Latin origin: during the Roman Republic , the census was a list of all adult males fit for military service. The modern census

9471-474: The census of agriculture for development is that it gives a snapshot of the structure of the agricultural sector in a country and, when compared with previous censuses, provides an opportunity to identify trends and structural transformations of the sector, and points towards areas for policy intervention. Census data are used as a benchmark for current statistics and their value is increased when they are employed together with other data sources. Early censuses in

9594-563: The census of agriculture, users need census data to: Although the census provides useful statistical information about a population, the availability of this information could sometimes lead to abuses, political or otherwise, by the linking of individuals' identities to anonymous census data. This is particularly important when individuals' census responses are made available in microdata form, but even aggregate-level data can result in privacy breaches when dealing with small areas and/or rare subpopulations. For instance, when reporting data from

9717-454: The census response is made by a household, indicating details of individuals resident there. An important aspect of census enumerations is determining which individuals can be counted and which cannot be counted. Broadly, three definitions can be used: de facto residence; de jure residence; and permanent residence. This is important in considering individuals who have multiple or temporary addresses. Every person should be identified uniquely as

9840-564: The central government. Differing release strategies of governments have led to an international project ( IPUMS ) to co-ordinate access to microdata and corresponding metadata. Such projects such as SDMX also promote standardising metadata, so that best use can be made of the minimal data available. Censuses in Egypt first appeared in the late Middle Kingdom and developed in the New Kingdom Pharaoh Amasis , according to Herodotus , required every Egyptian to declare annually to

9963-515: The combination of data from registers, surveys and other sources. Censuses have evolved in their use of technology: censuses in 2010 used many new types of computing. In Brazil, handheld devices were used by enumerators to locate residences on the ground. In many countries, census returns could be made via the Internet as well as in paper form. DSE is facilitated by computer matching techniques that can be automated, such as propensity score matching . In

10086-419: The composer does not seem afraid to express her ideas in the manner she deems most suitable to the purpose. It was capitally played by Miss Horrocks and Mr. Whitehouse, and was cordially approved. Of the ‘Eight Variations on an Original Theme,’ for pianoforte, violin, viola and violincello, it is scarcely possible to enter into particulars, for the reason that Mr. Arthur Dyson was an involuntary absentee. His place

10209-522: The country or have a holiday cottage, are difficult to fix at a particular address; this sometimes causes double counting or houses being mistakenly identified as vacant. Another problem is where people use a different address at different times e.g. students living at their place of education in term time but returning to a family home during vacations, or children whose parents have separated who effectively have two family homes. Census enumeration has always been based on finding people where they live, as there

10332-446: The dwelling are accessed. As a preliminary to the dispatch of forms, census workers will check for any address problems on the ground. While it may seem straightforward to use the postal service file for this purpose, this can be out of date and some dwellings may contain several independent households. A particular problem is what is termed " communal establishments ", a category that includes student residences, religious orders, homes for

10455-461: The elderly, people in prisons, etc. As these are not easily enumerated by a single householder, they are often treated differently and visited by special teams of census workers to ensure they are classified appropriately. Individuals are normally counted within households , and information is typically collected about the household structure and the housing. For this reason, international documents refer to censuses of population and housing. Normally

10578-483: The essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The UN 's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in turn, defines

10701-530: The event “proved that if lady composers cannot write with power, they can with grace, fluency, symmetry, and charm” . The Social Review mentions the concert in a column dedicated to highlighting Women’s Pursuits with the note that “Young ladies desirous of procuring advice as to their careers in life should write in confidence enclosing coupon cut from the last page of this journal to ‘Thyra’, care of Editor, The Social Review, 49 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.” Amy composes two songs, ‘Garden Voices’ and ‘Lullaby’ for

10824-548: The federal government's decision to do so. The use of alternative enumeration strategies is increasing but these are not as simple as many people assume and are only used in developed countries. The Netherlands has been most advanced in adopting a census using administrative data . This allows a simulated census to be conducted by linking several different administrative databases at an agreed time. Data can be matched, and an overall enumeration established allowing for discrepancies between different data sources. A validation survey

10947-453: The final items were disposed of” . Nevertheless, The Era describes the piece as “graceful and melodious … In the descriptive portions Miss Horrocks has succeeded well, and the effect was pleasing” . Ellen Bowick returns with a “thoughtful” and “agreeable variation” rendition of the piece at the 1900 Ballad Concert and also performs the recitation in Eastbourne later in the year, although

11070-423: The form of conditional distributions ( histograms ) can be derived interactively from the estimated mixture model without any further access to the original database. As the final product does not contain any protected microdata, the model-based interactive software can be distributed without any confidentiality concerns. Another method is simply to release no data at all, except very large scale data directly to

11193-443: The geographic distribution of the population or the agricultural population, statistics can be produced about combinations of attributes, e.g., education by age and sex in different regions. Current administrative data systems allow for other approaches to enumeration with the same level of detail but raise concerns about privacy and the possibility of biasing estimates. A census can be contrasted with sampling in which information

11316-470: The girls. Miss Buss understood this, and helped to make it understood.” After Amy leaves, the school does record Amy’s successes at the Royal Academy of Music , noting her Certificate of Merit for Harmony, Bronze and Silver Medals for Pianoforte, Potter Exhibition and Sterndale Bennett prize as well as one of her performances, commenting “Amy Horrocks (Potter Exhibitioner) played the pianoforte part of

11439-581: The good fortune to hear her ideas so perfectly rendered as they were on this occasion” . Census A census (from Latin censere , 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given population , usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture , traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines

11562-785: The historical structure of society. Political considerations influence the census in many countries. In Canada in 2010 for example, the government under the leadership of Stephen Harper abolished the mandatory long-form census. This abolition was a response to protests from some Canadians who resented the personal questions. The long-form census was reinstated by the Justin Trudeau government in 2016. As governments assumed responsibility for schooling and welfare, large government research departments made extensive use of census data. Population projections could be made, to help plan for provision in local government and regions. Central government could also use census data to allocate funding. Even in

11685-509: The houses were built, a renumbering order was issued in 1896" . What is now 163 Goldhurst had already been constructed by 1894 and sits west of Fairhazel Gardens so would have been subject to renumbering as it seems it would have been labelled as the West section prior to 1896. It is presumably shortly after this when Amy starts her musical career, studying piano and composition under the pianist Adolf Schlösser and musician Francis William Davenport at

11808-466: The identification of individuals in marginal populations; others swap variables for similar respondents. Whatever is done to reduce the privacy risk, new improved electronic analysis of data can threaten to reveal sensitive individual information. This is known as statistical disclosure control . Another possibility is to present survey results by means of statistical models in the form of a multivariate distribution mixture. The statistical information in

11931-427: The importance of musical education as after her death in 1894, a teacher at the school reflected that “I was afraid at first that she would not understand my point of view with respect to the study of music in high schools, but, instead of being misunderstood, she gave me her sympathy and help from the first in my endeavour to make music an earnest and educational part of school-work. … She was always so glad to find that

12054-499: The internet. It is also possible that the hidden nature of an administrative census means that users are not engaged with the importance of contributing their data to official statistics. Alternatively, population estimations may be carried out remotely with geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing technologies. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), "The information generated by

12177-620: The joyous ‘Bonnie wee thing’ and Miss Tulloch, the fanciful ‘A Midsummer Song.’” Amy’s career as a composer can be shown by reviews of several of her compositions in a variety of contemporary newspapers and periodicals. For instance, Amy’s music is reported as being performed by members of the Lyric Club Orchestral Society in 1889. Four of her songs are reviewed (mainly favourably) in the Crotchets and Quavers column of The Gentlewoman in 1890: “And now I want to say something about

12300-410: The majority of girls who did well in music were just those who were doing well in other school-work. … She was never shocked at my hopes, mostly very wildly expressed, for the future of music in the education of girls. Music, above all studies, needs backing up with the advantage of a thoroughly good education. It has always been my endeavour to keep it from encroaching unfairly on the time and strength of

12423-524: The mid 20th century, census data was only directly accessible to large government departments. However, computers meant that tabulations could be used directly by university researchers, large businesses and local government offices. They could use the detail of the data to answer new questions and add to local and specialist knowledge. Nowadays, census data are published in a wide variety of formats to be accessible to business, all levels of government, media, students and teachers, charities, and any citizen who

12546-497: The one ordered by the second Rashidun caliph , Umar . The Domesday Book was undertaken in AD   1086 by William I of England so that he could properly tax the land he had recently conquered. In 1183, a census was taken of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem , to ascertain the number of men and amount of money that could possibly be raised against an invasion by Saladin , sultan of Egypt and Syria . The first national census of France ( L'État des paroisses et des feux )

12669-567: The performance which “were listened to with evident delight by the audience” as reported the following week. Amy’s accompaniment of the Russian pianist Wassily Sapellnikoff in a performance at the Steinway Hall of two of her duets, ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’ and ‘A Flower’ is advertised in the Morning Post and London Evening Standard. And the singer, Rosa Leo performs Amy’s ‘Lullaby’, demonstrating “expressive style and rare intelligence” at

12792-437: The piece described as a “very clever composition” and “may be regarded as a distinct advance upon any of Miss Horrocks’s previous efforts” . The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News describes the quartet “composed by Miss Amy Horrocks” as giving “further testimony to the excellence of the teaching obtainable at the R.A.M.” While The Era describes Amy as “a most promising young composer, whose simple and graceful theme

12915-503: The piece is misattributed to “Amy Louise [sic] Horrocks” . Another performance of ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by Elinor Lucas “was rendered admirably and elicited loud applause” . An Amy composition, ‘Sing Heigh-ho!’ is performed by Australian contralto, Ada Crossley at another Ballad concert in December 1898 and Amy’s work is also performed at a recital given by the celebrated English operatic soprano and contralto, and occasional pianist of

13038-503: The platform after the first performance of her ‘orchestral legend’ Undine” on 6 February 1897 (Jacobs 1994). The performance receives a lot of favourable press coverage with the Musical Times describing the piece as “deftly orchestrated and possesses considerable interest” with the underlying mediaeval legendary incidents “musically suggested in a graceful and effective manner” . The Glasgow Herald says Amy has “an agreeable and melodious style” , and “ Miss Horrocks treated her theme in

13161-528: The poem is performed at a Royal Academy student concert in July 1899, although the event’s length is not appreciated by the reviewer for the London Evening Standard: “St. James’s Hall leaves little to be desired on the score of ventilation, but nearly two hours and a half of musical festivity in yesterday’s oppressive heat was clearly too much for a large portion of the audience, who filtered out long before

13284-540: The problems of overcount and undercount and the coherence of census enumerations with other official sources of data. For instance, during the 2020 U.S. Census, the Census Bureau counted people primarily by collecting answers sent by mail, on the internet, over the phone, or using shared information through proxies. These methods accounted for 95.5 percent of all occupied housing units in the United States. This reflects

13407-463: The publisher of ‘Short Exercises on Sight-reading’ by A.E. Horrocks” . Amy’s piece, ‘The Hotspur’ is performed by Scottish baritone Andrew Black at the 1900 Ballad Concert, but he “failed to make [it] very convincing” . Two of her Greek Love Songs make a welcome reappearance in 1900 at a concert given by Florence Bulleid accompanied by Amy and “were items of interest, the second, entitled ‘Golden Eyes’, proving very bright and effective, winning for

13530-498: The reign of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya under the leadership of Chanakya and Ashoka . The English term is taken directly from the Latin census , from censere ("to estimate"). The census played a crucial role in the administration of the Roman government, as it was used to determine the class a citizen belonged to for both military and tax purposes. Beginning in the middle republic, it

13653-446: The rose “if I had wings To other lands I’d fly.” “Why do you linger here, dear bird, When you might fly away?” “Because I love your scent, sweet rose, In this lone land I stay. I linger in this solitude, To cheer you with my song.” “Ah! little bird, bear me away, Your spreading wings are strong.” The little bird raised the sweet rose And spread his pinions fair; He flew away across

13776-530: The sea Through the bright summer air. But when he reached his nest at last He sang a sadder lay; His joy was hushed. The lovely rose Was faded quite away. Arno Lücker writing in online Van magazine, analyses the song: “In a leisurely, narrative Andante, the song often goes from harmony to harmony, with a few connecting lines, in the style of lovely folk art songs of the 19th century, which also - only with biblical text - found their way into various hymnals of (free) church groups (primarily in

13899-634: The series, advertised in The Morning Post and London Evening Standard, “‘Forget-me-not’ by Amy Horrocks, is a perfect gem, and ‘The Answer,’ by the same composer, is a sweet little ditty, which was deliciously sung by Miss Leo” and she is counted as one “of the best of our lady English writers of songs” . This 1896 series of Rosa Leo’s Steinway Hall concerts featuring Amy’s songs are also mentioned in The London Evening Standard, The Weekly Dispatch, The Queen and The Musical Times. Amy

14022-684: The singer and composer a warm recall” , although another reviewer dismisses the songs as “of no especial merit” . Amy’s songs feature in a concert in Halifax by the American baritone David Bispham , and her ‘Love, the Pedlar’ (presumably this is actually July the Pedlar) is included in a concert in Acton . Frederick Kreel reprises his performance of Amy’s ‘Six Greek Love Songs’ at Steinway Hall in June 1901. It may be that

14145-481: The standard of a statistical register by comparing the data from different sources and ensuring the quality is sufficient for official statistics to be produced. A recent innovation is the French instigation of a rolling census program with different regions enumerated each year so that the whole country is completely enumerated every 5 to 10 years. In Europe, in connection with the 2010 census round, many countries adopted alternative census methodologies, often based on

14268-633: The thought that they are devoting energy and capital towards bringing about this much desired improvement, for that is all the compensation they are likely to get at present.” Amy’s song ‘Holly’ is “heard to great advantage” at a charitable concert in Nottingham . Amy is one of a number of featured composers at a performance of music by the D’Oyly Carte singer Esther Palliser. The programme consists entirely of works by female composers (including Clara Schumann ), prompting The Weekly Dispatch to comment that

14391-413: The time towards Dvorak’s New World Symphony , describing it as “n***** music” . The Daily Telegraph celebrates Amy’s prowess, describing her as “a musician who has already attracted the attention of those who look for elements of promise in the younger generation” . And The Era hopes “that a composer, young, talented and already popular, will continue to exercise her gifts in the same direction, and have

14514-443: Was abandoned, with the contract being sold to Brazil. The online response has some advantages, but one of the functions of the census is to make sure everyone is counted accurately. A system that allowed people to enter their address without verification would be open to abuse. Therefore, households have to be verified on the ground, typically by an enumerator visit or post out . Paper forms are still necessary for those without access to

14637-524: Was designed to elicit basic information about the nature of the land and the life of its peoples. The replies, known as " relaciones geográficas ", were written between 1579 and 1585 and were returned to the Cronista Mayor in Spain by the Council of the Indies. The earliest estimate of the world population was made by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1661; the next by Johann Peter Süssmilch in 1741, revised in 1762;

14760-412: Was taken by Mr. Wayland, with Miss Horrocks at the pianoforte; Miss Winifred Robinson, violin; and Mr. Whitehouse, violincello. The young composer played a Berceuse and Waltz, also by herself; and between the various pieces in the second part some of her songs were sung by Miss Marian McKenzie [of whom more later], Miss Edith Tulloch and Mr. Fred. King. The first-named sang the plaintive ‘Ashes of Roses’ and

14883-418: Was treated with no little variety of effect in the course of the eight variations, all of them being pleasing and some decidedly effective.” After completing her studies, she continues to perform as a pianist and retains strong links with the Academy, where she becomes a teacher. As well as teaching, Amy acts as one of the Academy’s examiners for the 1893 and 1897 Hine Exhibition Prize for composition and

15006-518: Was undertaken in 1328, mostly for fiscal purposes. It estimated the French population at 16 to 17 million. In the 15th century, the Inca Empire had a unique way to record census information. The Incas did not have any written language but recorded information collected during censuses and other numeric information as well as non-numeric data on quipus , strings from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and other values encoded by knots in

15129-489: Was usually carried out every five years. It provided a register of citizens and their property from which their duties and privileges could be listed. It is said to have been instituted by the Roman king Servius Tullius in the 6th century BC, at which time the number of arms-bearing citizens was supposedly counted at around 80,000. When the Romans conquered Judea in AD   6, the legate Publius Sulpicius Quirinius organized

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